http://web.bndes.gov.br/bib/jspui/handle/1408/668 <strong>BNDES in focus - Theses and Dissertations | BNDES en foco - Tesis y disertaciones</strong> 2026-04-09T07:17:47Z http://web.bndes.gov.br/bib/jspui/handle/1408/23905 Title: BERT goes sustainable : an NLP approach to ESG financing Abstract: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors are a strategic topic for investors and financing institutions like the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES). Currently, the Brazilian bank’s experts are developing a framework based on those factors to assess companies' sustainable financing. In this work, we identify an opportunity to use Natural Language Processing (NLP) in this development. This opportunity arises from the observation that a critical document to the ESG analysis is the company annual activity report. This document undergoes a manual screening, and later it is decomposed, and its parts are redirected to specialists’ analysis. Therefore, the screening process would largely benefit from NLP to automate the classification of text excerpts from the annual report. The proposed automation solution is based on different Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) architectures, which rely on the attention mechanism to achieve optimal results on sentence-level analysis tasks. We devised a text classification task to enable the analysis of excerpts from the annual activity report of companies considering three categories, according to the ESG reference standard, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). We produced the training and validation sets from Brazilian companies’ annual reports from the GRI database to validate our experiments. To establish a benchmark, we implemented a baseline solution using a classic NLP approach, Naïve Bayes, which got a 51% accuracy and 50,33% F1-score. RoBERTa and BERT-large achieved 88% accuracy and almost 85% F1- score, the best results obtained from our experiments with different BERT architectures. Also, Albert showed to be a possible alternative for limited memory devices, with 85% accuracy and 78.5924% F1-score. Finally, we experimented with a multilingual setup that would be interesting for a scenario where the BNDES wants a more generic model that can analyze English or Portuguese annual reports. Bert multilingual model reached almost 86% accuracy and 81.18% F1-score. The proposed methodology to the GRI text classification and the BERT model selection for the ESG analysis of annual activity reports are significant contributions presented in this dissertation, aiming to improve the BNDES ESG framework substantially. Description: Inclui bibliografia: p. 54-57 e notas de rodapé 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://web.bndes.gov.br/bib/jspui/handle/1408/21843 Title: As relações entre Brasil e Argentina nos governos Lula (2003-2010) com destaque para o protagonismo do BNDES: o caso da Vale S. A. em Mendoza Authors: Gramasco, Thiago Bastelli Abstract: In this study, we discuss the political-economic relations between Brazil and Argentina during the administrations of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), and the BNDES role as an agent of the Brazilian Foreign Policy (PEB). In general, we deal with the process of productive internationalization of the Brazilian economy towards South America, through disbursements from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES). To this end, we started the discussion by explaining some of the main guidelines of the foreign policy of former president Lula, exposing interpretations about it. Next, we focused on BNDES role in financing South American infrastructure and in stimulating the expansion of Brazilian companies during the former PT president's governments. Finally, we present BNDES disbursements in Argentina for new production facilities and resources for mergers and acquisitions of local companies, since the neighbor was the country that received the most investments during the period in question. In addition, a case study received special attention: the Project Rio Colorado suspended that Vale S.A. carried out in the region of Mendoza, apparently productive for economic cooperation between Argentina and Brazil. The case helps to elucidate a certain detachment between initiatives and integrationist discourses and the concrete results achieved, which we analyze in the light of the difficulties imposed by the peripheral situation in the context of the new imperialism, using the two logics of Harvey (2004): "logic of the State" and "logic of capital". Description: Disponível também em: https://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/180238; Direito de acesso: acesso aberto; Inclui bibliografia: p. 185-195 e notas de rodapé 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://web.bndes.gov.br/bib/jspui/handle/1408/21724 Title: Internet das coisas no Brasil: a comunicação nos processos interativos das cidades inteligentes Authors: Bernardini, Gleice Abstract: This research aims to understand the complex digital innovation ecosystem of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology related to Smart Cities under the bias of communication. This research is based on statistical data and applied models of Smart Cities, one of the priority areas of Brazil in the IoT sector, under the suggested guidelines of the Action Plan (BNDES/ MCTIC) and the National IoT Plan (PNIoT), to promote actions through government public policies, in order to investigate the usability of IoT in the national scenario. We presuppose that the innovation provided has problems for its implementation in Brazil. We conclude that despite the various studies, consortia, plans and governmental initiatives existing in the country, there is one more desire with initial and timid actions, by some public sectors, agencies, entities and associations than concrete actions that confirm its real effectiveness for the implementation of IoT and the transformation cities in smart. The goal is to understand the applications, compare them and seek to understand, if possible, how they expand or produce new interactive communication processes generating benefits to the population. In this sense, for the precepts of Smart Cities to be implemented satisfactorily, promoting concrete improvements a communicational study to reflect the needs of contemporary society is necessary. It must be structured based on our cultural, social, economic, territorial and technological innovation diversity, aiming at the national development scenario. In addition, for the success of the implementation is necessary to be receptive to innovation through a prepared and conscious population to live in this connected space. This thesis is based on Maldonado Trans-methodology Theory (2010). Since the research crosses the areas of communication, information technology and engineering, it requires a mixture of methods and techniques to meet the necessary demands for its realization, such as the concepts of media ecology - by Postman (2015), the precepts of communication ecology and related theories covering issues related to the technological environment under the reflexes in human communication. Description: Tese (Doutorado em Mídia e Tecnologia) - Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Bauru, 2021.; Bibliografia: p. 174-192 e notas de rodapé; Disponível em: https://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/204686; Direito de acesso: acesso aberto 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://web.bndes.gov.br/bib/jspui/handle/1408/21723 Title: Uma análise comparativa entre o II Plano Nacional de Desenvolvimento (1974-1979) e o Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (2007-2014) Authors: Silva, Sabriny Pedrosa da Abstract: This paper revisited the Second National Development Plan and the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) aiming to build a comparison about the model of development in each period. Through an extensive literature review, it was possible to observe the State’s role in the process of economic and social development, specially since the XXI century. In order to elaborate such comparison, this paper accentuated the development strategies of each period, the definition of developmentalism, the conditions of the international economy, the role of state-owned companies and the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), and the sectoral investments on economic infrastructure. The result was a successful outcome for the Federal Government in promoting a new framework of social and economic development between 2007 and 2014, giving the return of economic planning in a wide public and private investment program (PAC). Description: TCC (Graduação em Ciências Econômicas), Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, 2020; Bibliografia: p. 88-92 e notas de rodapé; Disponível em: https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/23331; Os arquivos de licença a seguir estão associados a este item: Creative Commons 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z